Hanging out at the lounge in Munich before my next flight.
Osaka bound, on what I think is the last flight of the day departing MUC
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More butts in more seats, for the long flight to KIX airport
See you in Japan!
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Hitting up the #Osaka Aquarium, and they snuck in a nice snack bar partway through.
Ok, that's very cool.
So I have the JR Rail pass, and did some seat reservations online. When you pick up the seat ticket, you not only can do it at the reservation machine, but you can also pick and choose which reservations to pick up.
So, if you did safety reservations ahead of time, you could wait to print those tickets until the day of.
Why is that important? The system is smart and won't let you reserve seats during a time you already have reservations for. So once you print out the seat, you gotta go to the counter to get them changed.
Also, for some trains you *need* to use the seat reservation to enter the station, so better not lose them!
Choo choo!
I'm on the Hello Kitty Shikansen heading south to Hakata.
on the long train ride, I realized that DERP was doing a live stream, and I might as well as enjoy it while hanging out in my seat.
I bought this (https://pocket-tripod.com/collections/pro/products/universal-kit) folding phone tripod a while ago, and it's small enough to live in my standard travel kit. Today, I used it in anger for the first time! Not bad, certainly good enough for the seat tray.
Are there better phone tripods out there? yes, absolutely. Is this one _good enough_, while having a terrific storage footprint? yes, absolutely.
@phessler It's a weird way to do things. I noticed this is especially extreme at Lisbon.
@sullybiker yea, LH hardware into their main base. we were late by 50 minutes, so I bet something got screwed up there.